Mirnie Rosenak

This collection primarily contains newspaper extracts and circulars from WWI and the early 1920s, regarding Rabbi Leopold Rosenak's struggle against antisemitism in Germany during this period. Several of the articles regard Jews in the German army during WWI. Includes a 1921 letter to Rabbi Leopold Rosenak signed by Hindenburg, which Ignatz Rosenak, writing in a 1944 memoir also included in this collection, describes as reflecting "a state of mind so biased, so devoid of decency and even the semblance of a desire for impartiality..". Also includes photograph of Leopold Rosenak

Rabbi,1869-1923. In World War I he served as a field rabbi of the German Army in Lithuania, received the Iron Cross, and the Hanseatic Cross

Photographs removed to Photograph Collection

Processed for digitization

Sent for digitization

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